†Gooloogongia loomesi Johanson and Ahlberg 1998 (lobe-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Rhizodontiformes - Rhizodontidae
Full reference: Z. Johanson and P. E. Ahlberg. 1998. A complete primitive rhizodont from Australia. Nature 394:569-573
Belongs to Gooloogongia according to Z. Johanson and P. E. Ahlberg 1998
See also Johanson and Ahlberg 2001
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMF 96860A and B, a partial skull (a skull and partial lower jaw, incomplete cleithrum, incomplete pectoral fin and body scales, exposed in dorsal view). Its type locality is Canowindra, which is in a Famennian terrestrial horizon in the Mandagery Sandstone Formation of Australia.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Canowindra
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